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This article examines the link between the integration processes at work in acquired companies and the results of acquisition. New questions are raised concerning the underlying mechanisms of the integration process, in which it is essential to identify those factors that lend value to the...
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This Paper analyses the effect of a possible takeover on information flows and on the terms of trade in business … surplus from the buyer. The possibility of a takeover that leaves the buyer with a higher (lower) rent than the incumbent … on the performance of takeover targets and trade credit. …
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This paper analyses the impact of takeover threats on long-term industrial relations. It argues that takeover threats …, but the lower the firm's incentive to invest. Under the threat of a takeover reducing their expected wages, the workers …' effort and wage flexibility are restricted and decrease with the workers' initial bargaining power. Various takeover defence …
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Shareholder agreements govern the relations among shareholders in privately-held companies, such as joint ventures or venture capital-backed …rms. We provide an explanation for the use of put and call options, pre-emption rights, drag-along rights, demand rights, tag-along rights, and catch-up...
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We examine how ownership concentration and the separation of ownership and control affect market liquidity in France. We find that firms with a large insider blockholder exhibit significantly lower liquidity. Different methods of concentrating control affect liquidity in different ways. Pyramid...
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We analyze the impact of takeover threats on long term relationships between the target owners and other stakeholders …’ incentive to invest. The threat of a takeover that would transfer value from the stakeholders reduces their ex ante investment …. However, the stakeholders may appropriate ex post some value created by a takeover. This can prevent some value …
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This paper surveys research on corporate governance, with special attention to the importance of legal protection of investors and of ownership concentration in corporate governance systems in Europe. One share-one vote encourages the selection of an efficient management team. Families are the...
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takeover bids; and (iii) the stock liquidity is low. …
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